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by 988747 5y ago
It is often called "matrix structure", in which you have two bosses: HR boss that knows your salary, and day-to-day project boss that does not.
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>> Vehicles sold now are too fast for their intended purpose. You can buy a Toyota Camry with 300 HP and a 0-60 time of 5.1 seconds. Good acceleration makes driving safer, because taking over other cars takes less time (although 40-60
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I'm turning forty this year. My original dream was to get rich quick and retire at 30. Then I pushed that to 40. Now I think I will need to push it another 3-5 years... In general I agree with the sentiment: high salary is the only nic
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I received one email that I had to manually mark as spam recently. It was probably the first one in the past 10 years.
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> levying brutal taxes One of the reasons why Roman empire was so stable was that Roman taxes were actually lower and simpler than whatever taxes the local kings imposed previously. This makes sense if you think about it: Romans only rea
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I use Twitter regularly, but I do not have an account. I just bookmarked maybe a dozen of my favorite journalists/public figures, and go through their timelines daily. I do not feel the need to participate in the flamewars that arise u
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>> Higher latitudes, excluding inside the polar vortex, tends to have larger amount of wind in the winter. "Larger amount of wind" still means at most 3-4 days of decent wind per month, that has been my experience living in
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by 988747 5y ago
I wouldn't say "plenty" - few primates, dolphins, orcas, elephants, and, strangely, magpies. But the grounds for that claim are shaky for some of them, the only 3 species we are 100% sure about are chimpanzees, orangutans, an
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In addition to that some companies and institutions are banning Zoom on the grounds of it being a spyware.
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I think it was Samuel Huntington who said: "Development first, democracy later". Sanctions are the direct opposite of that. Rebellion never happens because of sanctions. People who are too busy fighting for survival have zero inte
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> 5 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 compared with fully vaccinated 12-34 year- olds. This can mean that the risk of hospitalization goes from 0.01% to 0.05%, which isn't something most people would care about. Wit
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I remember that when I was attending primary school in Central Europe, a stop at McDonald's was the most anticipated moment of every school trip. That was 25+ years ago though, and we were kids...
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Psychology currently is just a pseudoscience, really. It is at the same stage the general medicine was before microscope was invented and bacteria discovered: they try to analyze some phenomenon, but they have not discovered the underlying
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I only spent couple days in NYC, but the experience was pretty awful: the city is crowded, it stinks, and is full of weirdos (for example some random girl I asked for directions turned out to be a prostitute, some guy started to yell at me
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My experience is exactly opposite: recruiters are like cockroaches, they come up from every hole. Ignoring them is the only way to stay sane. As for well paying job offers those will always be there.
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>> The car can report to police silently, that's fine. No, it should not do even that. You are making an assumption here that police/government always have good intentions. What society needs is kind of power balance: law e
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80-90% of brain mass are not neurons, but the "supporting" tissue, taking care of things like storing nutrients supply. It is entirely possible to loose that extra mass and still be fully functioning.
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Why won't trimmed URL simply redirect to a proper one? Or throw 404 even? This seems like a webserver misconfiguration of sorts, kind of like being able to access raw PHP pages, instead of rendered ones.
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Can you share the trick? I'm slipping quite often these days :(
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Still we are not hamsters - hamsters can take 20x the amount of alcohol per body weight as humans, because for them it IS natural to base their diet on fermented fruits from their stashes. Humans are not like that.
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Bob Dylan was a poet, not musician. He wrote great lyrics, but did not have a shred of musical talent to make them into proper songs. That's why all his songs only became hits after someone else covered them. For reference check this:
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This question shouldn't be asked in January (because of all those New Years Eve celebrations) :)
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Yeah, because that's what religions are known for: eagerly changing their own rules.
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Oh, it very much can "spawn new people" - all those couples that always wanted a second/third child but couldn't financially afford it will now be able to :) Not to mention all those illegal immigrants storming the borde
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More importantly: it would not reduce the NEED to work. Giving everybody free money would just cause prices of everything to skyrocket, and you would still need to work your ass off all the same, to make the ends meet. You don't see th
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What's their definition of "millionaire"? Thanks to inflation it is now possible to become one just by virtue of having a household of two white collar workers, each making 150k annually, no kids, no cars - after a decade or
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> In comparison to the scale of ideological, political, economic, and social changes for the 19th and 20th centuries, essentially nothing has happened since 1992. No major nation has had a revolution. There have been no major wars betwee
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To be more precise, NFT is a blockchain record confirming that you own that piece of paper :) There was a scam scheme on eBay that if you did not read the item description correctly you would be surprised to discover that you paid $2000 for
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Maps are somewhat inaccurate. I tried my home town, and it routes through "unnamed river - 31km", before finding a river with the name (for the next 300km) - I know for the fact that this is one and the same river :) I wonder wher
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> Solar and wind mean you need batteries (can’t do off-peak without it) We do not have enough batteries in the world, and producing enough of them would take decades, and cost us trillions of dollars. Nuclear power plants are better and

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